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UI/UX: Design Systems
How design systems can help you and your team craft exceptional
products at scale.
What are design systems?
Good design at scale can be a nightmare. That’s where design systems are your best friend, and the best design systems start small and grow with your project.
Design systems are living documents that allow you to share assets, fonts, etc. across multiple designers and create an organized, central repository for common usage throughout your team.
A well-organized design system creates a single-source of truth for you
and your team.
Why should you use a design system?
A well-organized design system keeps your presentation consistent, focused, and unified across designers, developers, and entire teams as they work to generate a product.
Moreover, it allows you to apply both explicit and implicit style constraints on components, design assets, usage functionality, and makes it easier for your teams to adhere to guidelines. Single source of truth for the win.
The reason large-scale, high-quality products look and feel good is because they use design systems to their full advantage.
How to create an effective design system
In order to create a bare-minimum effective design system, you’ll need the following items already spec’ed out from your finalized product concepts:
🗹 Branding
🗹 Typography
🗹 Colors
🗹 Spacing
🗹 Parameters
🗹 Constraints
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